LESSON PLAN : 3

Class Level : Primary 5

Time : 60 minutes (double period)
Genre : Short Stories – Anansi and Turtle Share
Dinner
Literary : Prose
/ Plot / Characterization
/ Setting Point of View
Theme

Poetry
Tone / Mood
Rhyme
Rhythm
Persona
Figurative language – simile / metaphor /
Personification /
onomatopoeia

Integrated
: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
Language Skills
Higher Order
: Literal Comprehension, Reorganization Appreciation
Thinking Skills
Multiple Visual Spatial, Verbal Linguistic, Musical,
:
Intelligence(s) Intrapersonal
Learning : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
Objectives
• read the story from page 7 – 10 using different
voice modulation
• guess the mimes of a few scenes from the story
correctly.
• ask and answer questions correctly (oral
activity)
• express the feeling of the turtle in drawing.
• write a simple reflection on the lesson taught.
Prior Knowledge : Pupils have read the story from pages 3 – 6 in the
previous lesson.
PROCEDURES :

Teacher’s Task / Teaching

Pupils’ Task Rationale
Procedures Resources

Preparatory
Activities
(10 minutes) To recall the
Pupils listen Sentence strips reading from
Teacher recaps the attentively. the previous
previous lesson by lesson.
conducting a mime
and explains the
task. Pupils watch the
miming carefully
Teacher calls a and guess the
volunteer from scene.
each group to
come out and
mime a scene from
the story read
based on the
sentence strips
given. The other
pupils will guess
the mime.

Main Activities
(40 minutes)

Activity 1
Teacher reads the Pupils listen CCL Book Providing
story from pages 7 attentively to the opportunity for
to 10 with correct teacher. the pupils to
stress, voice read stories
modulation and with correct
pronunciation. pronunciation,
intonation and
Teacher asks the The whole class stress.
whole class to read read the story from
after him/her. pages 7 to 10.

Teacher divides the Pupils in the three

class into three big big groups will take
groups. Each group turns reading the
is asked to take story as instructed
turns to read the by the teacher.
parts of the
narrator, Anansi
and the Turtle.

Activity 2 Pupils listen Providing

Teacher introduces attentively to the opportunity for
an activity called teacher. the pupils to be
‘Hot Seat’ and creative and
explains how it is innovative in
carried out. expressing
Four groups will themselves.
Teacher instructs appoint Anansi
the groups from their group Spider masks
members to members and the Turtle masks
appoint a spider other four will
and a turtle among appoint the Turtle.
them.
Label of
All the spiders take stations
Teacher places all their places around
the turtles and the classroom.
spiders in stations
at every corner of
the classroom. Each group will go
around the class A set of
Teacher distributes asking questions to questions
a set of questions the spiders and
to each group. turtles
These questions
will be asked to the
person in the ‘Hot
Seat’. The writers will Spider masks
write down the Turtle masks
Teacher asks each answers from the
group to elect spiders’ point of
someone to be view.
their writer to jot
down the answers
given by the Worksheet 4
person in the “Hot The pupils who sits
Seat’. in the ‘Hot Seats’ To allow pupils
will try to answer to be the
Teacher expects from their personal character and
the person in the point of view. give their point
‘Hot Seat’ to of view.
answer from
his/her point of To elicit pupils’
view as a spider or Pupils listen to understanding
turtle. teacher’s of the
explanation. characters in
Activity 3 the story.
Teacher explains
how to complete
the Worksheet 4 on Pupils complete the
Character Grid Worksheet 4 in
their own groups.

Teacher assigns
each group to
locate the evidence
from the text
pertaining to the
character.

Activity 4
Teacher asks each Pupils present their Worksheet 4 –
group to present its Character Grid to Character Grid
Character Grid to the classroom.
the class.

Teacher evaluates.

Closing Activities
(10 minutes)

Activity 1 Pupils write their Reflection Log Providing

Teacher asks the own reflection in opportunity for
pupils to write a their Reflection the pupils to
reflection on the Log. reflect on their
lesson and the strengths and
activities. weaknesses.

Picture of a
Pupils listen turtle’s face
Activity 2 carefully. Providing
Teacher distributes opportunity for
a picture of the the pupils to be
turtle’s face to creative and
every pupil and innovative and
explains the task. Pupils draw the to feel empathy
expression on the for others.
Teacher asks them turtle’s face.
to draw the
expression on the
turtle’s face based
on the story read
until page 10.
TEACHER’S MATERIAL

SENTENCE STRIPS FOR THE MIME ACTIVITY

1. Anansi cooking in the kitchen.

2. Turtle crawling up the hills.

3. His feet were sore, throat dry, eyes dusty and stomach empty.

4. Turtle knocking on the door.

5. Anansi stuck his head out of the window and pulls it in quickly.

6. Anansi spied the turtle coming and pulls the curtain shut.

7. Anansi opens the door and puts his head out of the door.

8. It’s a hot day today, go and sit under the shade.

TEACHER’S MATERIAL

QUESTIONS FOR THE HOT SEAT ACTIVITY ( ANANSI )

1. Do you like Turtle?

2. Is Turtle your friend?

3. Why did you pretend not to see Turtle standing at your front door?
4. Why didn’t you let Turtle to come in your house?

5. Do you like to share your food with your friend?

6. Why did you let Turtle to come in your house?

7. Why did you ask Turtle to wash his hands twice?

8. How did you feel when Turtle thanked you for giving the delicious
dinner?

9. Why is dinner your favourite time?

10. What type of plate do you have?

11. Why did you pull the curtain shut?

12. Why didn’t you want to share dinner with Turtle?

13. Did you pity the Turtle?

14. Why did you had a mean expression on your face when you see the
Turtle?

15. Why did you ask Turtle to sit under the porch?

16. Why did you smile and rub your stomach as Turtle walk away?

QUESTIONS FOR HOT SEAT ACTIVITY (TURTLE)

1. Why did you go to Anansi’s house?

2. Were you invited to Anansi’s house?

3. Why did you wash your hands twice?

4. Were you not ashamed to be scolded by Anansi?

5. How did you feel when there was no more food left on the table?

6. Why did you smile and praise Anansi?

7. Why did you invite Anansi for dinner?

8. What did you had for dinner on that day?

9. Why did you crawl on the grass back to the house?

10. Why did you thank Anansi?

11. Why did you crawl very slowly up the road?

12. You knew Anansi was greedy, Why then did you go to his house?

13. How did you know Anansi was at home?

14. Why did you stick out your head out of your front window?

15. Why did you stick out your head out of the door?

16. Why didn’t you wash your hands the first time?

WORKSHEET 4
GROUP ___
DESCRIBING THE CHARACTERS

ANANSI TURTLE
deceitful witty